Bug#825355: firefox-esr: FTBFS on arm64: Error while running startup cache precompilation

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:56:28PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Source: firefox-esr
> Version: 45.1.1esr-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> firefox-esr failed to build on arm64:
> 
> Executing /«PKGBUILDDIR»/build-browser/dist/bin/xpcshell -g /«PKGBUILDDIR»/build-browser/dist/bin/ -a /«PKGBUILDDIR»/build-browser/dist/bin/ -f /«PKGBUILDDIR»/toolkit/mozapps/installer/precompile_cache.js -e precompile_startupcache("resource://gre/");
> resource://gre/components/ActivityMessageConfigurator.js
> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/ui/sidebar/contract.js
> [...]
> resource://gre/modules/workers/require.js
> ERROR!! RequestSyncService - Failed to retrieve data from the database.
> Executing /«PKGBUILDDIR»/build-browser/dist/bin/xpcshell -g /«PKGBUILDDIR»/build-browser/dist/bin/ -a /«PKGBUILDDIR»/build-browser/dist/bin/browser -f /«PKGBUILDDIR»/toolkit/mozapps/installer/precompile_cache.js -e precompile_startupcache("resource://app/");
> resource://app/components/ChromeProfileMigrator.js
> resource://app/components/ExperimentsService.js
> [...]
> resource://app/modules/Chat.jsm
> resource://app/modules/ContentClick.jsm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 406, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 400, in main
>     args.source, gre_path, base)
>   File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 161, in precompile_cache
>     errors.fatal('Error while running startup cache precompilation')
>   File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py", line 103, in fatal
>     self._handle(self.FATAL, msg)
>   File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py", line 98, in _handle
>     raise ErrorMessage(msg)
> mozpack.errors.ErrorMessage: Error: Error while running startup cache precompilation
> /«PKGBUILDDIR»/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.mk:41: recipe for target 'stage-package' failed
> 
> Logs at https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=firefox-esr&ver=45.1.1esr-1%2Bb1&arch=arm64

Interestingly 45.1.1esr-1 built fine, and none of the versions that
failed have differences with it that would matter for that build error.
So there seems to be some erratic (random) failure. If your immediate
concern is getting it built for a transition, please try to retrigger
builds.

Mike